Albert Maltz 1:13 Lester Cole 1:47 Samuel Ornitz 2:21 Adrian Scott 2:50 Alvah Bessie 3:18 Edward Dmytryk 4:01 Ring Lardner Jr. 4:18 John Howard Lawson 5:00 Herbert J. Biberman 5:35 Dalton Trumbo 6:05
To regain his standing in Hollywood Edward Dmytryk, one of the Ten, when released from Danbury snitched on the director of this film, John Berry. Dmytryk fingered Berry as a CPUSA member of many years' standing. Berry had to work in France and England until the 1960s. Dmytryk the stool pigeon would direct such movies as 'The Caine Mutiny' (which upholds the need to obey authority even if your ship may get wrecked) and 'The Carpetbaggers'.
Exactly. We wish we could be as honourable. Today so many people would just rat out everyone to save their own skin. We only wish we could have such guts under such circumstances.
Reading some comments, I can understand why the USA is the most modern and the most medieval nation of this world. At the same time. Not so good news really.
As is briefly stated in the commentary: the gavel-banging 'answer the question.. that's not the question' Rep. J Parnell Thomas, chairman of HUAC, was jailed for theft. He served time in the same CT correctional facility as some of the Ten. Two of them came across him one day when he was clearing weeds in the yard and they were cutting the grass. Thomas shouted 'Hey, commies, I see you got your sickle, where's your hammer?'... to which one replied: 'And I see you're still doing what you did in Washington- picking up chickensh*t.'
Funny enough, the guy who played that character ( Sterling Hayden ) was accused by HUAC ( House of Un-American Committee ) as being a sympathetic person toward communist " infiltration " as far back as 1947. He was " ousted " by Ronald Reagan, which is even stranger ( Reagan was head of the SAG-Screen Actors Guild-at that time ).
I wish they showed this moving documentary to us in High School while they were showing us red scare films and pro-war garbage. We got the impression we were being raised for cannon fodder. Thank you for posting this.
tomness64 - Yes I agree with you. What gave those people the right to take their freedoms away? Their freedom under the bill of rights to be affiliated with any political party.
No matter what. These were all men who sincerely believed in themselves, and took a couragous stand against these political bullies. Family men all, who thought of others before themselves, and believed in principals deep in their moral fibre. Today people believe in Walmart and entitlement.
Yes, we are happy that they were truly Un-American as we are, that's why their movies and the golden era was so good and we love it. F*** America!!😁🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Actually in the case of the Soviet Union it was their excuse to have a dictatorship of the proletariat (or dictatorship) because they felt they knew what the people wanted (lol). However, if you can honestly state that the US government is not statist in REALITY then more power to you. You have basically only two parties that can win power, that are really pretty much the same. And can do what they want when they want.
apparently not during those scary days in the 1950's. I remember reading one of Trumbow's books "Johnny Got His Gun" in the late 60's. It was even then declared anti war propaganda. That book changed me.
The House was trying to determine if these men were working for the Soviets, a rival nation, to spread propaganda. Which is NOT part of the Bill of Rights.
Watch Foreman's movie High Noon to understand the importance of standing up for your principles of what is right. Do not crumble like many people who betrayed their friends and co workers by naming names. Don't let fear speak for what is right. Read the book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Hardcover - February 21, 2017 by Glenn Frankel or listen to Fresh Air December 2022. "It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, often cited by politicians as a favorite film, celebrating moral fortitude. Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. (His co-authored screenplay for another classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, went uncredited in 1957.) Examined in light of Foreman's testimony, High Noon's emphasis on courage and loyalty takes on deeper meaning and importance. In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western, exploring how Carl Foreman's concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight. Both the classic film and its turbulent political times emerge newly illuminated."
For those who missed The film Trumbo, here is a video that's a chilling reminder of how our government can trample on our liberties. It only requires federal govt to incite fear--then all of our freedoms are up grabs.
fascists exist because the cosmic order of balance between dark and light demands that they will and will always exist.. that doesn't mean I won't sink into hate when I contemplate the Pol Pots and the Hitlers. I think I get where your coming from! Peace.
Yes, our freedom to be fascists. In my country, we welcome political discourse that includes all points of view, and all enjoy equal protection under our constitution. You have two options: 1) Work within the system to amend our constitution so that only ideologies of which you approve are legally permitted, or 2) Get out if you don't like our rules. You don't belong in a country that guarantees freedom. You want a country that can make it a crime to disagree with you. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! We must face the risks that come with freedom or resign ourselves to lives as cowards under oppression.
Thank you so much for this film. It needs to be shown and experienced by the people of this country. We are headed down a similar road today. And the public is uneducated, thanks to the six media conglomerates who control 90% of the people's airways. We need to speak truth to power and get out and bring information to people who have been treated by both political parties as pariahs. We need to speak up and change the direction that we are headed or there won't be any direction to head. There is no time to waste. We don't seem to learn from history.
I must say that I am sympathy with the Hollywood Ten because I believe they were standing up for their rights in the face of an American government inquisition during the Cold War, an era of tragedy and farce.
You are saying the US Communist party did not receive funding by the Soviet Union? Are you saying the Soviet Union did not use leftists and communist party members to spread propaganda trough Hollywood? Are you saying the Soviet Union was not one of the largest homicidal regimes in the History of the world? Debunk my claims dont just throw out ad hominem.
Personally, I don't think that the CPUSA received funding by the U.S.S.R. because there is NO evidence to support it. As for whether the U.S.S.R. "used" leftists and CPUSA members to "spread propaganda" throughout Hollywood, I think that is little to prove that anymore than the right-wing forces spreading anti-Communist propaganda farther and wider than Hollywood. As for the Soviet Union being "one of the largest homicidal regimes" in world history, that was because Stalin was a BAD Communist. If the Soviet Union had BETTER leaders, then it would have been a more benevolent socialist nation.
Robert Polanco There is no evidence to support the CPUSA received funding from the Soviet Union?Have you ever read a book? The CPUSA openly supported the Soviet Union. The fall of the SV crippled the CPUSA, seriously I dont know where you get the idea that the CPUSA did not recieve funding, it was not a conspiracy, it is pretty well known. The CPUSA was also involved in espionage for the USSR, so they did deserve to the attention from the US government, that is fucking treason
This is a fantastic documentary! I was just wondering if you happened to know the city in which it was distributed. This would actually help me a lot as I am using this documentary as a source for my history paper. Thanks :)
@OldSchopenhauer In this time era, even if your neighbor didn't like you, he could say you were communist, and your job WOULD be GUARANTEED to be taken away. Your reputation would be ruined. None of your friends would want to hang out with you, and you could have possibly gone to jail. So what @uranian99 is saying you just can not compare the two time era's. It was an entire different game back then.
Aw, these poor guys, in perfect agreement that Whittaker Chambers lied and that Hiss was jailed unjustly. Problem is that Chambers didn't lie and that Hiss was thrown in prison where he belonged.
There was a film short from about the same time by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters called "A World Without Trucks"; does any one here remember it, and can someone possibly post it?
A guild movie to prevent disinformation about the Hollywood 10 - great idea. I think one -- possibly Dalton Trumbo -- defended himself with the First Amendment, you know Freedom of Speech and by close extension thought.
Lori Quaresimo. The CPUSA, despite, at this time being a conspiratorial arm of a hostile foreign dictatorship, was not illegal during at this time (in a similar situation this would seem unlikely to happen today). So, it was not a normal political party - it was funded by the Kremlin, it did the bidding of Stalin's secret police, including illegal underground espionage etc. This is why the CP was seen differently and investigations took place to find how far its infiltration had gone in America. Certainly there was major government penetration and there were things going on in the film industry, especially in relation to the craft unions and screen writers guild. "Ten" leader John Howard Lawson was the CPUSA man in Hollywood and probably its most important organizer. He was a died in he wool Stalinist.The "10" were not imprisoned by the committee, congressional committees can't do that - but by the courts. And it was for contempt of congress, not for being communists they went to prison for a year.
Why did they serve time if they did not commit a crime? These things are happening now, and won't seem to go away any time soon. No wonder why teenagers are drinking alcohol and doing drugs.
I will never support communism. However, I will not stand for artists being dictated to regarding what they can write, compose, act in, paint, etc. If I don't like a film, I change the channel. It's like abstinence....it works every time it's tried. Everyone in this country has the right to think and talk and create freely without the restraint of the government.
But wasn't that a 'non issue' originally to Bogart? Wasn't it the principle of their right to be what ever they wanted to be that was the basis of his original support of the ten?
They were lucky they were treated as well as they were. If they had been in their Soviet paradise they would have been sent to a gulag. Therefore, they had to be protected from themselves.
Anti social RIGHTard U$ FAKEStream dumbed down dim Ted. So dim IT thinks IT's BRIGHT. Bwah! Hahahahahahaahaha. LMFAO. Totalitarian Commies, so called 'Soviets' NEVER FAKE claimed to be a FREE DEMOCRACY. Like the LYING U$/UK Fa$cists STILL DO - DOH!!
@edward stevens - I think your comment is pathetic and delusional as ever based on your alarmist assumptions about Communism and "The Hollywood Ten." How low can you go with comments like yours?
Comment continued: Hiss, the Rosenbergs and others charged back during these times, were rewarded by the Soviet Union and Hiss was awarded the "Order of the Red Star" medal for his service. When the Venona documents were released in the Seventies, they confirmed Hiss' work for the Soviets.
@@nstix2009xitsn When open-carrying a weapon, does one constantly and explicitly have to cite the 2nd amendment to enjoy the freedom to bear arms? Of course not. Similarly, one can exercise the right to remain silent under our Constitution without explicitly invoking the 5th amendment. Get some semblance of a clue.
None of these men deserved to be harassed, fired from their jobs, and/or imprisoned for their beliefs or their defiance of a Congressional witch hunt. Nevertheless, it is also true that the actions and words of some of them in blind support of Stalin prior to WW2 and the harassment they meted out to nonconforming colleagues, was nauseating and scarcely qualifies them as heroes.
"Blind support of Stalin." Literally _none_ of them held that position. At most, half of them attended meetings of the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) a handful of times.
Stalinists one and all. Except Dmytryk who admitted to being duped by the rabid Stalinists. They were dedicated to promoting the specific interests of the Soviet Union. They were not interested in promoting a non-aligned, independent progressive or liberal position.
@Michael M - Well, I DO NOT accept what you said because NOT ALL Communists were Stalinists and it was also because there were Communists that learned about Stalin having been a BAD Communist who had ruined the Soviet Union by his so-called "policies" which turned out to be serious MISTAKES in the end. After all, it was Nikita Khrushchev and others in the Soviet Union that had DENOUNCED Stalin for what he did in NOT having followed the direction of the country based on the philosophy of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. I also want to add that IF someone like Leon Trotsky had been the leader of the U.S.S.R., things would have turned out much differently in order to build socialism in the right direction. Furthermore, I NEVER forgave people like Edward Dmytryk for claiming to have "seen the light" because of the alleged "truth" about the so-called "Communist conspiracy" in the United States anyway.
@@robertpolanco1973 In the 30s and 40s, up to the death of Stalin in 53, to be a member of the CPUSA was to be a Stalinist. You signed on for Stalinism and were subject to party discipline enforced by agents of Stalin. If you failed to break with the CPUSA you were serving the interests of Stalin and Stalinism during that period. Those who decided to join the Trotskyite opposition, or like independent Marxists such as Jay Lovestone and many others, who broke with the CPUSA you were not subject to Stalinist discipline. The Hollywood 10 refused to break with Stalinism and were by definition agents of Stalin. Someone like Dmytryk finally realized he was subject to that discipline and wisely broke with the H10. The likes of Trumbo and the others adopted a cynical line to promote the Stalinist line during the hearings. Even naive, non communist liberals like Bogart and Bacall finally realized what the 10 and the CP legal team were up to and backed away from them. Stalinists like Trumbo loathed and vilified Trotskyites and did their best to smash them.
@@michaelm6948 Well, I really DO NOT accept your explanation and I find it unfortunate that you got some sort of information that is even very hard to believe because the CPUSA did NOT remain a Stalinist party after Stalin died in 1953! After all, political parties change over time anyway and I also want to point out that Stalin was a BAD Communist who failed to follow the path set by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. His policies in the Soviet Union should be regarded as MISTAKES that were condemned by other Soviet leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev, too.
@@robertpolanco1973 The issue at hand concerns the era of the Hollywood 10 and the CPUSA in 1947. As my comments clearly state the CPUSA was a Stalinist party and promoted those hideous ends during this period. Your hypotheses about alternative universes involving a non existent humanistic communism have no relevance to the reality of Communism in the 30s and 40s. These communists, who remained loyal to the Stalinist CPUSA, were in fact the worst of the worst, because they had been enlightened to the nature of Soviet communism from the experiences of the imposed Ukraine famine in 1932, the Soviet purge trials of 1938, the Stalinist wiping out of the anti Stalinist POUM anarchists and other Marxists in the Republican side in Spain. And to top it off the Nazi Soviet Pact in 1939. So,to remain a member of the CPUSA during this period was an act of incredible moral degeneracy. And many tens of thousands abandoned the Communist parties at that time. However, they were not the Hollywood 10, who were enthusiastic Stalinists.
@@michaelm6948 Well, EXCUSE ME for having to deal with your pathetic assessment of the old CPUSA of the past, and therefore, it is unfortunate that you only pointing out about whether "The Hollywood Ten" had been Stalinists that only happened IN THE PAST! As for your rejection of what you think were my "hypotheses," I seriously DO NOT accept what you stated when I really meant about what Stalin did were serious MISTAKES in being so-called "policies" in the Soviet Union anyway! After all, I truly believed what Khrushchev stated in his so-called "secret speech" in 1956 about Stalinist crimes and such. Other than that, the CPUSA did NOT remain a "Stalinist" organization AFTER the Khrushchev "secret speech" of 1956, and therefore, the attitudes of party members that also remained had changed, too, in spite of others that had left the party. So while I had been aware of Stalin's crimes that you mentioned from when he was around as dictator of the Soviet Union, it was only FROM THE PAST. I might even also add that IF Leon Trotsky had been the Soviet leader, I am sure that he would NOT have committed the same MISTAKES as what Stalin did anyway!
Fred Bazoo - The reason why they thought being Communist was viewed as being a traitor was because the United States wasn't built on Communism. Communism is an ideology that a society lives by. The United States felt threatened that if enough people became Communists it would overthrow our government and become a Communist country. However, I do believe that if someone wants to belong to a certain political party they ought to have the freedom to do so. At the time when these people were being tried and thrown in jail I really don't think enough of the public would have voted for our country to be Communists being so many people were against it. In my opinion it was a false threat. There wouldn't be enough Communists to overthrow our government. But even if there were that would have been what the majority of the people wanted. The government tried to have it both ways and you can't. You either give the people their freedoms or you don't. Just because the majority of the government doesn't agree with you isn't a reason to take your liberties and freedoms away. Of course there a lot of what the government does that doesn't make any sense. People in this country though should know there is a difference between Communism and Socialism. People in this country are accusing Obama to be a Socialist not a Communist like Conor1916 commented.
Respect for other cultures and religions, respect for the LGBT community, inter-racial marriage, support for worker's rights. These are the things that not only defined the Hollywood 10, but also define me as a REAL American. It goes without saying that xenophobia and racism permeate today's rightwing conservative movement [You need look only as far as BIRTHERISM and the rise of characters like Roy Moore and Donald Trump]. And it's really is no surprise that it's the rightwing conservatives, in this here blog, who are quick to condemn the Hollywood 10 . The great IRONY is that they, like the commie dictators, favor the imprisonment of people simply for their beliefs.
So what? People were starving during the Great Depression. Many intellectuals saw Socialism as a humane politic to take care of people. Just because the Soviet Union screwed up Socialism and turned it into a fiasco, doesn't mean the ideaology is bad.
Well, whether it's pro or con, too many films give ONLY one side of the story, like this one. What we did NOT know, is that in hindsight, communists were actively killing by the MILLIONS, at that time, and during PEACETIME. And so, in hindsight, considering the threat communism posed (compare millions of deaths with say, 60,000 American lives in Vietnam), it's not even debatable communism was monstrous. And consider the answers these people gave here... that it is against our constitution to go against communism. In other words, communists should be allowed to use our laws, that no communist would enjoy under communism, to destroy our country. Again, in hindsight, we most likely did the right thing here, although we can never know what would have happened if such hearings with such consequences never occurred. If we could, we might thank God this occurred. I don't think anyone would argue that this short film is communist propaganda. And, it should be shown, so people can see that propaganda is anything but new.
@mollesjohn - Well, what Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did in separate periods of time were BAD Communists that had made serious MISTAKES when they were leading their countries in a SUPPOSED attempt to build socialism or Communism. They had failed in following the direction that was established by the writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. As for your comment, I think your it is sad and pathetic as ever!
Yes, and the ones who readily admitted to that were exonerated.If you would look up Reagan's testimony on UA-cam and Google you will see that he readily admits attending a meeting but as soon as he realized that it did not follow his ideology he quit.They accepted that.He gives a magnificent testimony.He defends subversive organizations right to exist in America under the Constitution's freedoms and says as Pres of the Actors Guild, they tried to infiltrate but were stopped Constitutionally..
Covered up from the Public and the elected leaders until the 1940s was one of the most import intel reports "It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United, States, but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type, who have been in the United States and there absorbed every one of the worst phases of our civilization without having the least understanding of what we really mean by liberty. (I do not mean the use of the word liberty which has been so widespread in the United States since the war began, but the real word spelt the same way), and the real Russian realizes this and suspects that Americans think as do the loathsome specimens with whom he now comes in contact. I have heard all sorts of estimates as to the real proportion of Bolsheviks to that of the population of Siberia and I think the most accurate is that of General Ivanov-Rinov who estimates it as two per cent. There is hardly a peasant this side of the Urals who has the slightest interest in the Bolshevik or his doings except in so far as it concerns the loss of his own property and, in fact, his point of view is very much like that of our own respectable farmers, when confronted with the I [?] ideal." --Captain Montgomery Schuyler, American Expeditionary Forces Siberia, Intelligence Section
1919 Army Report Identifies Zionist and American Complicity in Bolshevik Revolution "It is very largely our fault that Bolshevism has spread as it has and I do not believe we will be found guiltless of the thousands of lives uselessly and cruelly sacrificed in wild orgies of bloodshed to establish an autocratic and despotic rule of principles which have been rejected by every generation of mankind which has dabbled with them." --Captain Montgomery Schuyler, American Expeditionary Forces Siberia, Intelligence Section
Bacall was a strong opponent of McCarthyism (through Hollywood’s Committee for the First Amendment) and an avid campaigner for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 yet she and Bogart (who died in 1957) allowed their publicists to distance them from the Hollywood Ten and left-wing circles in order to preserve themselves from the blacklist.“Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind.”Lauren Bacall
@mvies77- He's not saying not saying that being for the communist party is being for peace, but rather he was trying to say that the court was trying to put you in a position that you had to either anti-communist (for peace) or communist (for war). That is a loaded question; if he says he's a communist that the judge is would've identified him as someone who wants war, so the judge was trying to force him to say an answer.
@@levongevorgyan6789 none of the Hollywood 10 were Communists at that point, they had all left the party. McCarthyism and this became a witch hunt. I doubt there were 60,000 Soviet spys in America, but that's how many people across the country were blacklisted
Why is a communist (or socialist/Marxist Leninsist/Liberal) a traitor to the United States? Its just a politcal view. I thought Americans were free to think they way they wished?
the home of the free? GMAFB* Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, "unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." KEY WORLD.. "UNLESS'..... WE ARE SO FUC* BY THE GOVERMENT THAT THE WE DONT HAVE ANY IDEA. What about in this case : "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"? Nop.. don;t count...SORRY.
When non Americans leave comments about things that are strictly about the American experience, being born here, living your life here, your family immigrated a very long time ago, etc, they get almost every single thing wrong and make it impossible to have a knowledgable discussion. UA-cam "discussions" is where the Internet fails the most.
I find it amusing that you would say that. Sometimes I had to deal with internet trolls on UA-cam almost everyday. It's sad but it's unfortunately true.
And now We The People are at war with an insurgency from within, fighting for the very existence of our Republic... People today are in a Great Awakening that is witnessing the exposure of this enemy that started its mission long ago... THEY are LOSING and will LOSE completely... God Bless America WWG1WGA..
Well why bring up the 1st amendment in relation to the 10? 1st amendment rights weren't violated. Blacklisting was by the studios, who were free to employ or not employ whoever they chose. The 10 were simply asked questions by a committee. this doesn't mean "persecuted". They were at times clumsy, but quite legitimate investigations (1947/1951-2) into how far the CPUSA, a party financed and controlled by a hostile foreign power's intelligence service, had infiltrated into the Hollywood studios.
Because _all ten_ were sentenced to one-year prison sentences -- a violation of their 1st, and -- arguably -- their 5th Amendment rights. Also, CPUSA had absolutely zero sway in Hollywood. Most studio heads in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were, in fact, arch-conservatives. Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, kept an autographed picture of Benito Mussolini behind his desk, while Harry Cohn -- also an admirer of the Italian fascist -- produced a newsreel extolling the virtues of Italian fascism. (Source: www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_Over_Hollywood/KW7ago9Wo3MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=louis+b+mayer+mussolini+picture&pg=PA266&printsec=frontcover)
Actually no. They were legitimatly voted in. Democratically and legally. The Fascists, and the Church in Spain, just couldn't abide by the change and the loss of power. Just because we didn't agree with them doesn't make it right that we supress them.
Most Hollywood Jews, then, were Isolationist-don't-rock-the-boat types. Goebbel's propaganda against Hollywood made Jews fearful they would be identified and persecuted as in Europe. So they kept quiet while sending money to "Republican" (Anti monarchy) Forces in Spain and Anti Nazi-forces elsewhere.
They make valid points but also invalid ones. The, Are You A Member of the Communist Party?, really means, are you for peace?, is outrageous. Everyone being asked to name names when they have answered honestly without due process, is also outrageous.This is not a simple black & white.Both sides are in error and right.Hiss was definitely guilty.
The Hollywood 10, served federal prison time for contempt of congress..... not for being a communist. Many people miss that point. What is additionally not remembered in relationship to this film is the timing. America and its allies were involved in a cold war with the communist USSR and its allies. The hunt for communist subversives who were out to use all means at their disposal to overthrow America was part of that cold war. America had just walked away from WWII and its intelligence capabilities were still operational and very effective...... It would lead ultimately to the Cuban Missile Crisis, where Russia sent Nuclear missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States.... Therefore, Communist subversives were sought out in every quarter which they were given... many of which were aligned to the motion picture industry.... Eventually the Waldorf Statement was released by Hollywood industry management, in which they denounced Communism and the hiring of Communist subversives, considered influenced by the USSR..... Most people commenting here are too young to understand the complete picture, especially using the backdrop of the cold war.........
+tazlynn1958 There was a communist party in the United States into the 1930's. And what if they were communists? I doubt they were. They were men of principal. And so I am clear there may be communists who are men of principal. We are brainwashed in this country and really know nothing about communism except the fear mongering we get from government.
+Nostradamus What Mao and Stalin did wasn't communism. They called it that, but it was really just a fascist dictatorship. Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well.
+William Stevens "Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well." Because it defies natural law and subjugates the individual to the collective. Without the believe that the individual is sovereign and shall not be aggressed against for whatever reason, then there will be tyranny and oppression.
@Glenn Martel - You are so pathetic to think that "The Hollywood Ten" deserved prison time just because they were entitled to believe in any political ideology and philosophy! Shame on you for such an ignorant comment like yours!
If democracy is being a middle-american (lest we forget that America is a beauiful continent, minus the 'usa', which is simply the dog turd on the otherwise perfect lawn), then communism starts to become attractive.
Many aided the anti-Franco fighters in Spain, who were dominated by communists for their organizational insistence. They made very bad decisions associating themselves with communists, in light of popular feelings of the time, added to real and prolific Soviet spying. Yet they, as strongly Left -- even giving aid to communist-dominated fighting forces of foreign nations -- oppose the way of free life in personal support of communist militia efforts, which is a system of supreme hierarchy and destruction of opponents. Marx even called for total genocide of various ethnic and racial groups, some of whom (= Serbs) he and Engels called "social trash." Marx's partner, Engels, in Marx's 1849 Neue Rheinische Zeitung (newspaper), called for the extermination of "primitive nations," including Scottish Highlanders, Basques (Boscos), Bretons, Serbs. Communism is a trash ideology, especially considering the crazies who concocted Marxism, and how it works in practice, to only destroy those who oppose. These 10 were asking for a world of hurt, in practice, also considering the underhanded ways of the communist parties in countries all over the world. Of course this never excuse for similar behavior of other ideologies.
@E K - Personally, I find your comment very pathetic and contemptible as well. In other words, I DO NOT believe and accept your right-wing delusional assumption about Communism or socialism in past history!
@@robertpolanco1973 So? Of course you don’t accept my views if you’re a socialist. Socialist regimes don’t tolerate dissent, and thus are unsustainable when confronted by constructive criticism. Socialist statist regimes require police state tyranny and control of all media. By the way, I’m not Right Wing. I’m a _classical liberal._ I believe in personal liberties that Marxian socialism are totally contrary to. Yes, I’ve read Marx, from his sometimes times falsely credited writings, to his editorial writings for Engels’ equally shit rag, _Neue Rheinische Zeitung._ I’ve read lots of that dystopian trash from other far Left writers too, including Hegel and other charlatan theorists who push autocratic views. Marx was a disciple of Hegel, and applied it to a governance regime socialism. I know about Marx’s terrible family life too. He was a disgrace of a person. Communists kill and jail people who disagree with them, if they have power to do so, Yes, communists. The goal of statist socialism is communism. Don’t even try to gaslight me. The Lefties don’t even define Nazis correctly, another far Left ideology I equally despise for its criminal nature joined at the hip with (neo-)Marxists. Nazis are not fascists. That’s just a fact, easily identified by anyone who’s ever read Giovanni Gentile’s [djen-TEE-lay] works, since he co-invented fascism. Nazis call themselves National Socialists, which they are. Fascist history grew directly out of communists. Mussolini, seeing low Italian public interest in joining Bolshevism of his party while he was chief editor of the Italian communist party, introduced ultranationalism. This triggered his expulsion from the Italian communist party. Next he teamed with Gentile to form the first state fascist government. Hitler despised fascism, and Nazis don’t tolerate political trade unions that are required of fascism, along with actualism-which has the effect of negating reality for the sake of ideology. The German Labor Front (DAF) wasn’t a labor union. It was created for two sole purposes: 1. Militarily train men outside Versailles Treaty 2. Nazify every aspect of Germans through workplace bureaucratic planning, reaching as far as regulating German individual recreation, and issuing/overseeing ration cards. The VW Käfer/Beetle prototypes grew out of the DAF program.
Albert Maltz 1:13
Lester Cole 1:47
Samuel Ornitz 2:21
Adrian Scott 2:50
Alvah Bessie 3:18
Edward Dmytryk 4:01
Ring Lardner Jr. 4:18
John Howard Lawson 5:00
Herbert J. Biberman 5:35
Dalton Trumbo 6:05
@Eileen Belshaw I have a video about it on my channel if you're interested!
Sent here by Eddie Muller of TCM’s Noir Alley. He mentioned this documentary on 11/12/22, and I’m glad to see it’s available for all to see.
Yes
To regain his standing in Hollywood Edward Dmytryk, one of the Ten, when released from Danbury snitched on the director of this film, John Berry.
Dmytryk fingered Berry as a CPUSA member of many years' standing. Berry had to work in France and England until the 1960s. Dmytryk the stool pigeon would direct such movies as 'The Caine Mutiny' (which upholds the need to obey authority even if your ship may get wrecked) and 'The Carpetbaggers'.
Exactly. We wish we could be as honourable. Today so many people would just rat out everyone to save their own skin. We only wish we could have such guts under such circumstances.
Great historical document.
Reading some comments, I can understand why the USA is the most modern and the most medieval nation of this world. At the same time. Not so good news really.
Carlos Santa María Pico when politics get going it really is like that.
As is briefly stated in the commentary: the gavel-banging 'answer the question.. that's not the question' Rep. J Parnell Thomas, chairman of HUAC, was jailed for theft. He served time in the same CT correctional facility as some of the Ten.
Two of them came across him one day when he was clearing weeds in the yard and they were cutting the grass. Thomas shouted 'Hey, commies, I see you got your sickle, where's your hammer?'... to which one replied: 'And I see you're still doing what you did in Washington- picking up chickensh*t.'
can someone tell me who is speaking at the beginning of the film and what he's saying? thank you
13:30 "...too important to be left to the generals..." Anyone else remember the Strangelove lines from General Jack D. Ripper?
Funny enough, the guy who played that character ( Sterling Hayden ) was accused by HUAC ( House of Un-American Committee ) as being a sympathetic person toward communist " infiltration " as far back as 1947. He was " ousted " by Ronald Reagan, which is even stranger ( Reagan was head of the SAG-Screen Actors Guild-at that time ).
I wish they showed this moving documentary to us in High School while they were showing us red scare films and pro-war garbage. We got the impression we were being raised for cannon fodder. Thank you for posting this.
tomness64 - Yes I agree with you. What gave those people the right to take their freedoms away? Their freedom under the bill of rights to be affiliated with any political party.
A disgrace and shame in US history
Right? All those commies working in the open for decades without repercussion. Shameful era in US history.
"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." -- Ben Franklin
@Richard C Why do you quote Ben Franklin? John Berry and the Hollywood Ten had a murderous hatred for freedom of thought and public liberty.
No matter what. These were all men who sincerely believed in themselves, and took a couragous stand against these political bullies. Family men all, who thought of others before themselves, and believed in principals deep in their moral fibre.
Today people believe in Walmart and entitlement.
Thank you!
Yes, we are happy that they were truly Un-American as we are, that's why their movies and the golden era was so good and we love it. F*** America!!😁🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Actually in the case of the Soviet Union it was their excuse to have a dictatorship of the proletariat (or dictatorship) because they felt they knew what the people wanted (lol). However, if you can honestly state that the US government is not statist in REALITY then more power to you. You have basically only two parties that can win power, that are really pretty much the same. And can do what they want when they want.
I thought under the bill of rights we are allowed to be affiliated with any political party? Isn't that one of our freedoms?
apparently not during those scary days in the 1950's. I remember reading one of Trumbow's books "Johnny Got His Gun" in the late 60's. It was even then declared anti war propaganda. That book changed me.
how did that change you Leslie?
The House was trying to determine if these men were working for the Soviets, a rival nation, to spread propaganda. Which is NOT part of the Bill of Rights.
Lori Quaresimo it's an issue of Jews and their foreign loyalty...
Why would you WANT to be with a party that undermines your own country???
Watch Foreman's movie High Noon to understand the importance of standing up for your principles of what is right. Do not crumble like many people who betrayed their friends and co workers by naming names. Don't let fear speak for what is right. Read the book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Hardcover - February 21, 2017 by Glenn Frankel or listen to Fresh Air December 2022. "It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, often cited by politicians as a favorite film, celebrating moral fortitude.
Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. (His co-authored screenplay for another classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, went uncredited in 1957.) Examined in light of Foreman's testimony, High Noon's emphasis on courage and loyalty takes on deeper meaning and importance.
In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western, exploring how Carl Foreman's concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight. Both the classic film and its turbulent political times emerge newly illuminated."
For those who missed The film Trumbo, here is a video that's a chilling reminder of how our government can trample on our liberties. It only requires federal govt to incite fear--then all of our freedoms are up grabs.
our freedoms to be fascists?
fascists exist because the cosmic order of balance between dark and light demands that they will and will always exist.. that doesn't mean I won't sink into hate when I contemplate the Pol Pots and the Hitlers.
I think I get where your coming from! Peace.
Yes, our freedom to be fascists. In my country, we welcome political discourse that includes all points of view, and all enjoy equal protection under our constitution. You have two options: 1) Work within the system to amend our constitution so that only ideologies of which you approve are legally permitted, or 2) Get out if you don't like our rules. You don't belong in a country that guarantees freedom. You want a country that can make it a crime to disagree with you.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! We must face the risks that come with freedom or resign ourselves to lives as cowards under oppression.
They were trying to get rid of anyone with the power of the deepest knowledge
Thank you so much for this film. It needs to be shown and experienced by the people of this country. We are headed down a similar road today. And the public is uneducated, thanks to the six media conglomerates who control 90% of the people's airways. We need to speak truth to power and get out and bring information to people who have been treated by both political parties as pariahs. We need to speak up and change the direction that we are headed or there won't be any direction to head. There is no time to waste. We don't seem to learn from history.
I must say that I am sympathy with the Hollywood Ten because I believe they were standing up for their rights in the face of an American government inquisition during the Cold War, an era of tragedy and farce.
No fuck them. They were members of the communist party who received funding from the Soviet Union, a nation notorious for human rights violations
NO! FUCK YOU for saying such trash. Not to mention you being very delusional.
You are saying the US Communist party did not receive funding by the Soviet Union? Are you saying the Soviet Union did not use leftists and communist party members to spread propaganda trough Hollywood? Are you saying the Soviet Union was not one of the largest homicidal regimes in the History of the world? Debunk my claims dont just throw out ad hominem.
Personally, I don't think that the CPUSA received funding by the U.S.S.R. because there is NO evidence to support it. As for whether the U.S.S.R. "used" leftists and CPUSA members to "spread propaganda" throughout Hollywood, I think that is little to prove that anymore than the right-wing forces spreading anti-Communist propaganda farther and wider than Hollywood. As for the Soviet Union being "one of the largest homicidal regimes" in world history, that was because Stalin was a BAD Communist. If the Soviet Union had BETTER leaders, then it would have been a more benevolent socialist nation.
Robert Polanco There is no evidence to support the CPUSA received funding from the Soviet Union?Have you ever read a book? The CPUSA openly supported the Soviet Union. The fall of the SV crippled the CPUSA, seriously I dont know where you get the idea that the CPUSA did not recieve funding, it was not a conspiracy, it is pretty well known. The CPUSA was also involved in espionage for the USSR, so they did deserve to the attention from the US government, that is fucking treason
This is a fantastic documentary! I was just wondering if you happened to know the city in which it was distributed. This would actually help me a lot as I am using this documentary as a source for my history paper. Thanks :)
Hi Besma, where were you studying?
The red scare was nothing more than a second Salem witch trial!
Except unlike the Salem witchhunt, the HUAC weeded out _actual_ fifth column communists. Time has proven McCarthy more right than he was wrong.
Powerful stuff!
@OldSchopenhauer In this time era, even if your neighbor didn't like you, he could say you were communist, and your job WOULD be GUARANTEED to be taken away. Your reputation would be ruined. None of your friends would want to hang out with you, and you could have possibly gone to jail. So what @uranian99 is saying you just can not compare the two time era's. It was an entire different game back then.
Aw, these poor guys, in perfect agreement that Whittaker Chambers lied and that Hiss was jailed unjustly. Problem is that Chambers didn't lie and that Hiss was thrown in prison where he belonged.
There was a film short from about the same time by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters called "A World Without Trucks"; does any one here remember it, and can someone possibly post it?
I choose the Bill of Rights.
Why did Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall wus out of their original support for the ten?
@@raymondfrye5017 OK, "weasel out".
The easy answer is pressure from the studios if they wanted to continue to work.
Can somebody PLEASE tell me exactly what this is from? I really need to cite it for a paper.
yo momma
A guild movie to prevent disinformation about the Hollywood 10 - great idea. I think one -- possibly Dalton Trumbo -- defended himself with the First Amendment, you know Freedom of Speech and by close extension thought.
Bogie and Betty alert at 7:27 :)
Lori Quaresimo. The CPUSA, despite, at this time being a conspiratorial arm of a hostile foreign dictatorship, was not illegal during at this time (in a similar situation this would seem unlikely to happen today). So, it was not a normal political party - it was funded by the Kremlin, it did the bidding of Stalin's secret police, including illegal underground espionage etc. This is why the CP was seen differently and investigations took place to find how far its infiltration had gone in America. Certainly there was major government penetration and there were things going on in the film industry, especially in relation to the craft unions and screen writers guild. "Ten" leader John Howard Lawson was the CPUSA man in Hollywood and probably its most important organizer. He was a died in he wool Stalinist.The "10" were not imprisoned by the committee, congressional committees can't do that - but by the courts. And it was for contempt of congress, not for being communists they went to prison for a year.
Why did they serve time if they did not commit a crime? These things are happening now, and won't seem to go away any time soon. No wonder why teenagers are drinking alcohol and doing drugs.
@@donsink - I think YOU are drinking the RIGHT-WING "Kool-Aid" for saying such drivel!
Corrupt Corporate Capitalism is so much better ...yeah Right!
Were they Commies?
of course they were this is propaganda protecting them
Land of freedom😂😂
11:07 "And this is the kind of linching the supreme court refused to stop!" Uhhhhh sure guy.
I will never support communism. However, I will not stand for artists being dictated to regarding what they can write, compose, act in, paint, etc. If I don't like a film, I change the channel. It's like abstinence....it works every time it's tried. Everyone in this country has the right to think and talk and create freely without the restraint of the government.
It's amazing that other political parties were not tolerated then, but the KKK was.
Some of the HUAC members were themselves current and/or former members of the Klan.
But wasn't that a 'non issue' originally to Bogart? Wasn't it the principle of their right to be what ever they wanted to be that was the basis of his original support of the ten?
They were lucky they were treated as well as they were. If they had been in their Soviet paradise they would have been sent to a gulag. Therefore, they had to be protected from themselves.
Anti social RIGHTard U$ FAKEStream dumbed down dim Ted. So dim IT thinks IT's BRIGHT. Bwah! Hahahahahahaahaha. LMFAO. Totalitarian Commies, so called 'Soviets' NEVER FAKE claimed to be a FREE DEMOCRACY. Like the LYING U$/UK Fa$cists STILL DO - DOH!!
@edward stevens - I think your comment is pathetic and delusional as ever based on your alarmist assumptions about Communism and "The Hollywood Ten." How low can you go with comments like yours?
Wow! So there was cancel culture back then as well.....
left or right or whatever..the ones with something to lose when people care about others and may like to point it out...sad.
Thanks for posting. A very ugly period in US history - US is just one long history of barbarism.
This is ,,American democracy,,
The position of the Supreme court during that time was correct. Its later apologetic position appeared heroic.
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Hiss, the Rosenbergs and others charged back during these times, were rewarded by the Soviet Union and Hiss was awarded the "Order of the Red Star" medal for his service. When the Venona documents were released in the Seventies, they confirmed Hiss' work for the Soviets.
And the Rosenbergs have absolutely nothing -- zero, zilch -- to do with the Hollywood Ten, who were innocent of any crime.
@@mattnhormann That's a lie. The Hollywood Ten were all guilty of contempt of Congress, which was a crime.
@@nstix2009xitsn Yes, but for what? They had the 5th Amendment right _not to incriminate themselves_ and that right was violated.
@@mattnhormann Who violated it? Congress? No. Nobody violated their Fifth Amendment right, because they never invoked it.
@@nstix2009xitsn When open-carrying a weapon, does one constantly and explicitly have to cite the 2nd amendment to enjoy the freedom to bear arms? Of course not. Similarly, one can exercise the right to remain silent under our Constitution without explicitly invoking the 5th amendment.
Get some semblance of a clue.
None of these men deserved to be harassed, fired from their jobs, and/or imprisoned for their beliefs or their defiance of a Congressional witch hunt. Nevertheless, it is also true that the actions and words of some of them in blind support of Stalin prior to WW2 and the harassment they meted out to nonconforming colleagues, was nauseating and scarcely qualifies them as heroes.
"Blind support of Stalin." Literally _none_ of them held that position. At most, half of them attended meetings of the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) a handful of times.
So they were guilty , but not that guilty lol
@@imannonymous7707 Guilty of what? Belonging to a political party?
Stalinists one and all. Except Dmytryk who admitted to being duped by the rabid Stalinists. They were dedicated to promoting the specific interests of the Soviet Union. They were not interested in promoting a non-aligned, independent progressive or liberal position.
@Michael M - Well, I DO NOT accept what you said because NOT ALL Communists were Stalinists and it was also because there were Communists that learned about Stalin having been a BAD Communist who had ruined the Soviet Union by his so-called "policies" which turned out to be serious MISTAKES in the end. After all, it was Nikita Khrushchev and others in the Soviet Union that had DENOUNCED Stalin for what he did in NOT having followed the direction of the country based on the philosophy of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. I also want to add that IF someone like Leon Trotsky had been the leader of the U.S.S.R., things would have turned out much differently in order to build socialism in the right direction. Furthermore, I NEVER forgave people like Edward Dmytryk for claiming to have "seen the light" because of the alleged "truth" about the so-called "Communist conspiracy" in the United States anyway.
@@robertpolanco1973 In the 30s and 40s, up to the death of Stalin in 53, to be a member of the CPUSA was to be a Stalinist. You signed on for Stalinism and were subject to party discipline enforced by agents of Stalin. If you failed to break with the CPUSA you were serving the interests of Stalin and Stalinism during that period. Those who decided to join the Trotskyite opposition, or like independent Marxists such as Jay Lovestone and many others, who broke with the CPUSA you were not subject to Stalinist discipline. The Hollywood 10 refused to break with Stalinism and were by definition agents of Stalin.
Someone like Dmytryk finally realized he was subject to that discipline and wisely broke with the H10. The likes of Trumbo and the others adopted a cynical line to promote the Stalinist line during the hearings. Even naive, non communist liberals like Bogart and Bacall finally realized what the 10 and the CP legal team were up to and backed away from them. Stalinists like Trumbo loathed and vilified Trotskyites and did their best to smash them.
@@michaelm6948 Well, I really DO NOT accept your explanation and I find it unfortunate that you got some sort of information that is even very hard to believe because the CPUSA did NOT remain a Stalinist party after Stalin died in 1953! After all, political parties change over time anyway and I also want to point out that Stalin was a BAD Communist who failed to follow the path set by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin as well. His policies in the Soviet Union should be regarded as MISTAKES that were condemned by other Soviet leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev, too.
@@robertpolanco1973 The issue at hand concerns the era of the Hollywood 10 and the CPUSA in 1947. As my comments clearly state the CPUSA was a Stalinist party and promoted those hideous ends during this period. Your hypotheses about alternative universes involving a non existent humanistic communism have no relevance to the reality of Communism in the 30s and 40s. These communists, who remained loyal to the Stalinist CPUSA, were in fact the worst of the worst, because they had been enlightened to the nature of Soviet communism from the experiences of the imposed Ukraine famine in 1932, the Soviet purge trials of 1938, the Stalinist wiping out of the anti Stalinist POUM anarchists and other Marxists in the Republican side in Spain. And to top it off the Nazi Soviet Pact in 1939. So,to remain a member of the CPUSA during this period was an act of incredible moral degeneracy. And many tens of thousands abandoned the Communist parties at that time. However, they were not the Hollywood 10, who were enthusiastic Stalinists.
@@michaelm6948 Well, EXCUSE ME for having to deal with your pathetic assessment of the old CPUSA of the past, and therefore, it is unfortunate that you only pointing out about whether "The Hollywood Ten" had been Stalinists that only happened IN THE PAST! As for your rejection of what you think were my "hypotheses," I seriously DO NOT accept what you stated when I really meant about what Stalin did were serious MISTAKES in being so-called "policies" in the Soviet Union anyway! After all, I truly believed what Khrushchev stated in his so-called "secret speech" in 1956 about Stalinist crimes and such. Other than that, the CPUSA did NOT remain a "Stalinist" organization AFTER the Khrushchev "secret speech" of 1956, and therefore, the attitudes of party members that also remained had changed, too, in spite of others that had left the party. So while I had been aware of Stalin's crimes that you mentioned from when he was around as dictator of the Soviet Union, it was only FROM THE PAST. I might even also add that IF Leon Trotsky had been the Soviet leader, I am sure that he would NOT have committed the same MISTAKES as what Stalin did anyway!
Who else is here for US History class?
Fred Bazoo - The reason why they thought being Communist was viewed as being a traitor was because the United States wasn't built on Communism. Communism is an ideology that a society lives by. The United States felt threatened that if enough people became Communists it would overthrow our government and become a Communist country. However, I do believe that if someone wants to belong to a certain political party they ought to have the freedom to do so. At the time when these people were being tried and thrown in jail I really don't think enough of the public would have voted for our country to be Communists being so many people were against it. In my opinion it was a false threat. There wouldn't be enough Communists to overthrow our government. But even if there were that would have been what the majority of the people wanted. The government tried to have it both ways and you can't. You either give the people their freedoms or you don't. Just because the majority of the government doesn't agree with you isn't a reason to take your liberties and freedoms away. Of course there a lot of what the government does that doesn't make any sense. People in this country though should know there is a difference between Communism and Socialism. People in this country are accusing Obama to be a Socialist not a Communist like Conor1916 commented.
"Land of the Free!"..... Oh wait.
True American Heros
Respect for other cultures and religions, respect for the LGBT community, inter-racial marriage, support for worker's rights. These are the things that not only defined the Hollywood 10, but also define me as a REAL American. It goes without saying that xenophobia and racism permeate today's rightwing conservative movement [You need look only as far as BIRTHERISM and the rise of characters like Roy Moore and Donald Trump]. And it's really is no surprise that it's the rightwing conservatives, in this here blog, who are quick to condemn the Hollywood 10 . The great IRONY is that they, like the commie dictators, favor the imprisonment of people simply for their beliefs.
So what? People were starving during the Great Depression. Many intellectuals saw Socialism as a humane politic to take care of people. Just because the Soviet Union screwed up Socialism and turned it into a fiasco, doesn't mean the ideaology is bad.
@uranian99 As in you think it's better?
Well, whether it's pro or con, too many films give ONLY one side of the story, like this one. What we did NOT know, is that in hindsight, communists were actively killing by the MILLIONS, at that time, and during PEACETIME. And so, in hindsight, considering the threat communism posed (compare millions of deaths with say, 60,000 American lives in Vietnam), it's not even debatable communism was monstrous. And consider the answers these people gave here... that it is against our constitution to go against communism. In other words, communists should be allowed to use our laws, that no communist would enjoy under communism, to destroy our country. Again, in hindsight, we most likely did the right thing here, although we can never know what would have happened if such hearings with such consequences never occurred. If we could, we might thank God this occurred.
I don't think anyone would argue that this short film is communist propaganda. And, it should be shown, so people can see that propaganda is anything but new.
@mollesjohn - Well, what Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did in separate periods of time were BAD Communists that had made serious MISTAKES when they were leading their countries in a SUPPOSED attempt to build socialism or Communism. They had failed in following the direction that was established by the writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. As for your comment, I think your it is sad and pathetic as ever!
Yes, and the ones who readily admitted to that were exonerated.If you would look up Reagan's testimony on UA-cam and Google you will see that he readily admits attending a meeting but as soon as he realized that it did not follow his ideology he quit.They accepted that.He gives a magnificent testimony.He defends subversive organizations right to exist in America under the Constitution's freedoms and says as Pres of the Actors Guild, they tried to infiltrate but were stopped Constitutionally..
I saw it on another video on the red scare. It was a good testimony
Covered up from the Public and the elected leaders until the 1940s was one of the most import intel reports
"It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United, States, but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type, who have been in the United States and there absorbed every one of the worst phases of our civilization without having the least understanding of what we really mean by liberty. (I do not mean the use of the word liberty which has been so widespread in the United States since the war began, but the real word spelt the same way), and the real Russian realizes this and suspects that Americans think as do the loathsome specimens with whom he now comes in contact. I have heard all sorts of estimates as to the real proportion of Bolsheviks to that of the population of Siberia and I think the most accurate is that of General Ivanov-Rinov who estimates it as two per cent. There is hardly a peasant this side of the Urals who has the slightest interest in the Bolshevik or his doings except in so far as it concerns the loss of his own property and, in fact, his point of view is very much like that of our own respectable farmers, when confronted with the I [?] ideal."
--Captain Montgomery Schuyler, American Expeditionary Forces Siberia, Intelligence Section
1919 Army Report Identifies Zionist and American Complicity in Bolshevik Revolution
"It is very largely our fault that Bolshevism has spread as it has and I do not believe we will be found guiltless of the thousands of lives uselessly and cruelly sacrificed in wild orgies of bloodshed to establish an autocratic and despotic rule of principles which have been rejected by every generation of mankind which has dabbled with them."
--Captain Montgomery Schuyler, American Expeditionary Forces Siberia, Intelligence Section
March 1, 1919
Is it possible that the Communist's killed General Patton?
Patton died of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure following a car crash in late 1945.
@@mattnhormann ...........
Bacall was a strong opponent of McCarthyism (through Hollywood’s Committee for the First Amendment) and an avid campaigner for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 yet she and Bogart (who died in 1957) allowed their publicists to distance them from the Hollywood Ten and left-wing circles in order to preserve themselves from the blacklist.“Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind.”Lauren Bacall
@mvies77- He's not saying not saying that being for the communist party is being for peace, but rather he was trying to say that the court was trying to put you in a position that you had to either anti-communist (for peace) or communist (for war). That is a loaded question; if he says he's a communist that the judge is would've identified him as someone who wants war, so the judge was trying to force him to say an answer.
A shameful page of American history
@@levongevorgyan6789 none of the Hollywood 10 were Communists at that point, they had all left the party. McCarthyism and this became a witch hunt. I doubt there were 60,000 Soviet spys in America, but that's how many people across the country were blacklisted
@@levongevorgyan6789 - YOU are so pathetic and even stupid! Shame on you for your lousy comments!
Why is a communist (or socialist/Marxist Leninsist/Liberal) a traitor to the United States? Its just a politcal view. I thought Americans were free to think they way they wished?
Well it's because communism was supposed to be a Global brotherhood which would abolish national boundaries
This quotation has been discredited, and it is a mark of indifference to truth, fact, and authenticity to continue to spread it.
Cold war madness!!!! :(
This is starting again, except the tables are turned.
the home of the free? GMAFB*
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, "unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
KEY WORLD.. "UNLESS'.....
WE ARE SO FUC* BY THE GOVERMENT THAT THE WE DONT HAVE ANY IDEA.
What about in this case : "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"?
Nop.. don;t count...SORRY.
When non Americans leave comments about things that are strictly about the American experience, being born here, living your life here, your family immigrated a very long time ago, etc, they get almost every single thing wrong and make it impossible to have a knowledgable discussion. UA-cam "discussions" is where the Internet fails the most.
I find it amusing that you would say that. Sometimes I had to deal with internet trolls on UA-cam almost everyday. It's sad but it's unfortunately true.
I'm Trumbo!
And now We The People are at war with an insurgency from within, fighting for the very existence of our Republic...
People today are in a Great Awakening that is witnessing the exposure of this enemy that started its mission long ago...
THEY are LOSING and will LOSE completely...
God Bless America
WWG1WGA..
LOL!!! You're joking, right?
Read the book " Hollywood Party ".
@OldSchopenhauer There is no comparison.
Well why bring up the 1st amendment in relation to the 10? 1st amendment rights weren't violated. Blacklisting was by the studios, who were free to employ or not employ whoever they chose. The 10 were simply asked questions by a committee. this doesn't mean "persecuted". They were at times clumsy, but quite legitimate investigations (1947/1951-2) into how far the CPUSA, a party financed and controlled by a hostile foreign power's intelligence service, had infiltrated into the Hollywood studios.
Because _all ten_ were sentenced to one-year prison sentences -- a violation of their 1st, and -- arguably -- their 5th Amendment rights.
Also, CPUSA had absolutely zero sway in Hollywood. Most studio heads in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were, in fact, arch-conservatives. Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, kept an autographed picture of Benito Mussolini behind his desk, while Harry Cohn -- also an admirer of the Italian fascist -- produced a newsreel extolling the virtues of Italian fascism.
(Source: www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_Over_Hollywood/KW7ago9Wo3MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=louis+b+mayer+mussolini+picture&pg=PA266&printsec=frontcover)
Actually no. They were legitimatly voted in. Democratically and legally. The Fascists, and the Church in Spain, just couldn't abide by the change and the loss of power. Just because we didn't agree with them doesn't make it right that we supress them.
Guerra del Chaco
@loverthehater I was responding to his claim about the Bush era being worse than Obama's.
Venona was declassified in the 1990s, to be pedantic!
What a bunch of crap. They didn't answer the questions because they were guilty!
@August Ryckman - Like how low can you go with comments like yours? SHAME ON YOU!
@@robertpolanco1973 🎻
@@parranoya100 You know what, Ryckman, UP YOURS, JACKASS!
Yes - and they weren't imprisoned for political beliefs or party membership, but contempt of congress.
...for exercising their 5th Amendment rights -- which is _not_ contempt of congress. They were sent away on Mickey Mouse charges by a kangaroo court.
lol
All Jewish ?
Most Hollywood Jews, then, were Isolationist-don't-rock-the-boat types.
Goebbel's propaganda against Hollywood made Jews fearful they would be identified and persecuted as in Europe. So they kept quiet while sending money to "Republican" (Anti monarchy) Forces in Spain and Anti Nazi-forces elsewhere.
No: Ring Lardner Jr., Dalton Trumbo, and Adrian Scott were not Jewish.
@@mattnhormann She's Christian's
They make valid points but also invalid ones. The, Are You A Member of the Communist Party?, really means, are you for peace?, is outrageous. Everyone being asked to name names when they have answered honestly without due process, is also outrageous.This is not a simple black & white.Both sides are in error and right.Hiss was definitely guilty.
Not so - certainly John Howard Lawson was a devoted Stalinist and the party's man in Hollywood.
The Hollywood 10, served federal prison time for contempt of congress..... not for being a communist. Many people miss that point. What is additionally not remembered in relationship to this film is the timing. America and its allies were involved in a cold war with the communist USSR and its allies. The hunt for communist subversives who were out to use all means at their disposal to overthrow America was part of that cold war. America had just walked away from WWII and its intelligence capabilities were still operational and very effective...... It would lead ultimately to the Cuban Missile Crisis, where Russia sent Nuclear missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States.... Therefore, Communist subversives were sought out in every quarter which they were given... many of which were aligned to the motion picture industry.... Eventually the Waldorf Statement was released by Hollywood industry management, in which they denounced Communism and the hiring of Communist subversives, considered influenced by the USSR..... Most people commenting here are too young to understand the complete picture, especially using the backdrop of the cold war.........
the progressive party? Sounds like AOC
I would like to know if they were communist....
+tazlynn1958 There was a communist party in the United States into the 1930's. And what if they were communists? I doubt they were. They were men of principal. And so I am clear there may be communists who are men of principal. We are brainwashed in this country and really know nothing about communism except the fear mongering we get from government.
+Craig Holman idk when I saw what mao and Stalin did to their own people I was turned off by communism. It's just another religion.
+Nostradamus What Mao and Stalin did wasn't communism. They called it that, but it was really just a fascist dictatorship.
Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well.
William Stevens I like the idea myself. My personal fear is that to achieve this goal, very inhumane practices will be done.
+William Stevens "Communism is still a good idea, its just really hard to implement well." Because it defies natural law and subjugates the individual to the collective. Without the believe that the individual is sovereign and shall not be aggressed against for whatever reason, then there will be tyranny and oppression.
Scheiss Englisch-Unterricht
THEY SHOULD HAVE ROTTED IN PRISON....
@Glenn Martel - You are so pathetic to think that "The Hollywood Ten" deserved prison time just because they were entitled to believe in any political ideology and philosophy! Shame on you for such an ignorant comment like yours!
If democracy is being a middle-american (lest we forget that America is a beauiful continent, minus the 'usa', which is simply the dog turd on the otherwise perfect lawn), then communism starts to become attractive.
literally on the soviets payroll.
No, they literally were not.
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Snitches get stitches . Little Caesar are you listening?
Foolish self indulgent loudmouths who brought trouble upon themselves .....
Bear River lmao I think you’re just a fragile small minded conservative
@Bear River - That comment of yours is so pathetic and very ignorant as ever! SHAME ON PEOPLE LIKE YOU FOR BELIEVING SUCH NONSENSE!
Many aided the anti-Franco fighters in Spain, who were dominated by communists for their organizational insistence.
They made very bad decisions associating themselves with communists, in light of popular feelings of the time, added to real and prolific Soviet spying.
Yet they, as strongly Left -- even giving aid to communist-dominated fighting forces of foreign nations -- oppose the way of free life in personal support of communist militia efforts, which is a system of supreme hierarchy and destruction of opponents.
Marx even called for total genocide of various ethnic and racial groups, some of whom (= Serbs) he and Engels called "social trash." Marx's partner, Engels, in Marx's 1849 Neue Rheinische Zeitung (newspaper), called for the extermination of "primitive nations," including Scottish Highlanders, Basques (Boscos), Bretons, Serbs.
Communism is a trash ideology, especially considering the crazies who concocted Marxism, and how it works in practice, to only destroy those who oppose. These 10 were asking for a world of hurt, in practice, also considering the underhanded ways of the communist parties in countries all over the world. Of course this never excuse for similar behavior of other ideologies.
@E K - Personally, I find your comment very pathetic and contemptible as well. In other words, I DO NOT believe and accept your right-wing delusional assumption about Communism or socialism in past history!
@@robertpolanco1973 So?
Of course you don’t accept my views if you’re a socialist.
Socialist regimes don’t tolerate dissent, and thus are unsustainable when confronted by constructive criticism.
Socialist statist regimes require police state tyranny and control of all media.
By the way, I’m not Right Wing. I’m a _classical liberal._ I believe in personal liberties that Marxian socialism are totally contrary to.
Yes, I’ve read Marx, from his sometimes times falsely credited writings, to his editorial writings for Engels’ equally shit rag, _Neue Rheinische Zeitung._
I’ve read lots of that dystopian trash from other far Left writers too, including Hegel and other charlatan theorists who push autocratic views. Marx was a disciple of Hegel, and applied it to a governance regime socialism.
I know about Marx’s terrible family life too. He was a disgrace of a person.
Communists kill and jail people who disagree with them, if they have power to do so,
Yes, communists. The goal of statist socialism is communism.
Don’t even try to gaslight me.
The Lefties don’t even define Nazis correctly, another far Left ideology I equally despise for its criminal nature joined at the hip with (neo-)Marxists. Nazis are not fascists. That’s just a fact, easily identified by anyone who’s ever read Giovanni Gentile’s [djen-TEE-lay] works, since he co-invented fascism.
Nazis call themselves National Socialists, which they are.
Fascist history grew directly out of communists.
Mussolini, seeing low Italian public interest in joining Bolshevism of his party while he was chief editor of the Italian communist party, introduced ultranationalism.
This triggered his expulsion from the Italian communist party.
Next he teamed with Gentile to form the first state fascist government.
Hitler despised fascism, and Nazis don’t tolerate political trade unions that are required of fascism, along with actualism-which has the effect of negating reality for the sake of ideology.
The German Labor Front (DAF) wasn’t a labor union. It was created for two sole purposes:
1. Militarily train men outside Versailles Treaty
2. Nazify every aspect of Germans through workplace bureaucratic planning, reaching as far as regulating German individual recreation, and issuing/overseeing ration cards. The VW Käfer/Beetle prototypes grew out of the DAF program.